Reports of election fraud increasing

[unixronin]

Honestly, I'm very conflicted about this, because while I seriously distrust George W. Bush's Karl Rove's agenda and think that he has done enormous damage to Constitutional rights and protections, to the US economy, and to international attitudes towards the US, the truth is that as a centrist Libertarian I frankly don't want John Kerry in the White House any more than I want Bush there.  Kerry gave up far too easily, showing himself to lack the gumption to stick with a fight to the end, and in 20 years in Congress he has a perfect record of never having seen a gun control bill he didn't like.  He came back off the campaign trail, where he was campaigning as a friend of hunters, specifically to cast an anti-gun vote in the Senate on a gun-control-related bill.

That said, the evidence for massive, systemic election fraud in the November 2 election is mounting, and the accumulation is getting pretty hard to ignore.  This article summarizes and links to much of it, and some of it is pretty damned tough to explain away.

This is of course just my opinion, but I think the US desperately needs electoral reform, with three primary goals:

• To establish a proportional representation system that is not so readily dominated by the two major parties;
• To create a capability for voters to not simply "pick a card, any card", but to rank their preferences, so that they can both vote for the candidate they would most like to see in office AND still vote for the candidate most likely to defeat the candidate they LEAST want to see in office;
• And last but not least, to remove control of the conduct of elections from the incumbent administration at the time and place it in the hands of a neutral body with multi-partisan and citizen oversight, from which no party may be excluded.

By all the evidence, our elections are getting dirtier and dirtier.  This can only be allowed to go on for just so long.

Comments

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Wow, for once I agree with you completely. Except for "don't want John Kerry in the White House any more than I want Bush there" -- I'd rather have my cat in the White House than Bush, but you knew that already. Would I rather have my cat in there than Kerry? Not sure . . . .

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Damn! Law of averages musta caught up to us. :)